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Det. Rush investigates the 1991 double murder of married illegal immigrants from Cambodia who were shot to death in their apartment and found by their 6-year old daughter. The now-teenage girl brings the case to Lilly after she discovers a bracelet once owned by her mother is for sale on the internet. The probe reveals that the parents had dark secrets unknown to their daughter.

The episode opens in July 1991. It’s a bad area of Philly at night where drug deals and prostitute
arrangements are going down. Sen and Channary Dhiet are up in their apartment. Channary
teaches their young daughter Kara a dance. There’s a knock on the door, and Sen sends Kara
into the bathroom to hide. Kara keeps the door cracked and she hears two shots, and sees the
shadows of her mom and dad fall to the ground. She runs out there and tries to wake them, but
it’s to no avail. The case boxes are filed under ”Dhiet, S” and ”Dhiet, C.”

Present day, an eighteen year old Kara and an older man (Booker) bring a picture of a bracelet
she saw on eBay. Kara believes the bracelet is her dead mother’s. She wants Lilly to investigate
the seller, and find out if he/she killed her parents. Scotty asks if Kara lives with Booker, but
she says she lives with her aunt and uncle, but Booker is a friend (he’s the one who called in the
double murder the night Kara’s parents were killed). Kara works at her aunt’s restaurant, and
she tells Lilly that her mom was a dancer and her dad was an architect.
Lilly and Stillman check the case files down in the vault. The theory at the time was a robbery
gone bad, but nothing was taken except maybe the bracelet. Sen was shot in the chest and
Channary point blank execution style. The gun was never found. Scotty found the eBay dealer
who says he bought it off of a Wilma Whiting. Her son, Dolla Bill, is doing time for a burglary. Lilly
points out that Booker was a suspect the first time around. She doesn’t trust his relationship
with Kara.

Lilly and Scotty go talk to Booker. They tell him that the bracelet was solid gold and quite
valuable, meaning that they believe that whoever took it had some inside information. He tells
them that he didn’t know the Dhiets. He served time in prison for possession with intent to sell
because he came back from Vietnam hooked on drugs. He got clean in prison. Lilly wants to
know how Booker came to be the one who made the 911 call. The night Sen and Channary died,
Kara ran into the streets asking for help. She came across Booker and he agreed to help her
when he saw the blood on her hands. When he got to the bodies, he noticed dirt on Channary’s
face, and he cleaned it off because he says she had a beautiful face. He tells Lilly and Scotty that
he started taking care of Kara after that because her aunt and uncle worked long hours at the
restaurant. Lilly still believes that there’s more going on between Booker and Kara. Vera and Jeffries go to the prison to talk to Dolla Bill. He says he traded it off ”some white
dude” for smack. He doesn’t know the man’s name. Jeffries tells him that they know he worked
with Sen at the construction company. He says he doesn’t deny knowing him, but he points to
their boss Brad Atwater. Sen had a problem with him because he caught him skimming his
paycheck. Sen didn’t say anything about it because he was in the US illegally, but he was rallying
the others around Atwater.

Lilly and Scotty go talk to Brad Atwater and his wife. They remember Sen and Channary.
Athingyer claims he was fixing potholes in the driveway until around 10:30 pm that night.
They ask Athingyer about the kickbacks. He explains that he and a friend in the INS went on
raids busting illegals. They would give them fraudulent work VISAs for a cut of their paychecks.
Athingyer first encountered Sen and Channary during one of these raids. The INS officer threatened
to send Sen and his family back, but Sen was concerned for his family’s safety if they got
sent back to Cambodia. He offered the INS agent a ruby in exchange for letting them stay. The
INS agent took the ruby and gave Sen two legit work VISAs that he has taken from someone else.
Sen didn’t want to take the VISAs because he knew that he was sending the other family back
home to their deaths. He reluctantly took them and he and Channary assumed the identities of
the Dhiets. The real Dhiets were deported, and most likely sent to their deaths.

Stillman, Vera, and Lilly are in the lobby of the police station. Scotty walks up and tells
them that he tracked the deported couple. They were executed three days after arriving back
in Cambodia. They decide to look into whether there were any real Dhiet relatives that stayed
behind in the US in the early 90s.

Vera and Jeffries go talk to Kara’s aunt and uncle. They tell Jeffries and Vera Sen and Channary’s
real names. Channary was a member of the royal family. She and Sen had to leave Cambodia
when there was a regime change. It would have been much too dangerous for them to stay
with her past connection. They say that they didn’t know the real Dhiets or their family. The aunt
tells Jeffries and Vera that Channary was too proud and refused to put aside her royal past. She
walked around like she was better than everyone else. She wore fancy dresses and used to say
that the calluses of her fingers (from being a seamstress) and the holes in her stockings didn’t
exist, they were just allusions. She and the aunt used to bring lunch to Sen at the construction
company. The aunt and uncle say that the way Channary carried herself made it seem that she
had a lot of money when all she really had was that bracelet. No one knew that Channary was
royalty, including Kara.

Lilly goes to the restaurant that night to talk to Kara. She tells her that they found the bracelet
and it’s very valuable. She tries to tell her that her parents weren’t who she thinks they were,
but Booker is there and he doesn’t want Lilly upsetting her. She tells her that Channary was
royalty. Kara remembers stories that her mom told her, but she thought they were just stories.
She had seen the bracelet as a child, and she sneaked it off to school for show and tell. Kara’s
upset because she thinks that by telling all the other kids, teacher, and assistant that she may
have gotten her parents killed.

Outside the restaurant, Booker approaches Lilly. He is angry that she upset Kara. Lilly wants
to know what Booker was really doing that night on the corner. He tells her that Kara doesn’t
know about his drug past. He says that a girl needs a father-figure to look up to, but Lilly insists
not all girls. Booker accuses her of having man problems since she’s not wearing a ring. She tells
him that she ”just can’t find the right ex-con, drug dealing, smack addict to settle down with.”
Lilly knows Booker is hiding something and she plans to find out what it is.
Back at the police station, Lilly tells Jeffries, Scotty, and Stillman that there’s a new list of
people to check out since Kara took the bracelet to school. Scotty tracked down a Buddhist monk
who knew the real Dhiets and he told him that they had a niece that lives in Philly. It turns out
to be Kara’s aunt, which gives her motive to kill Kara’s parents.
Vera and Jeffries interrogate Kara’s aunt at the station. She admits who she is, but says
she didn’t kill them. She admits she hated Channary, but not because of what happened to
her family. Atwater tried to get Channary to sleep with him because he said it would make up
for Sen’s bad behavior when he found out that Atkinson took part of his paycheck. Channary
refused to do it and walked off, leaving Kara’s aunt to fill the void with Atwater. She agreed to
do it because she was afraid he would deport Sen and Channary. She tells Vera and Jeffries that
Atwater was repulsive and would make her lick his boots.

Lilly and Scotty track down the teacher’s assistant from Kara’s class back in 1991. He admits that he stole the bracelet for drugs after Lilly tells him that the guy he traded with (Dolla Bill)
IDed him. He broke in through a kitchen window and only found the bracelet. He claims no one
was home when he broke in, and he didn’t kill Sen and Channary. He does tell them that he saw
something at a crack house the night of the murders. He was looking for drugs, but no one would
let him borrow any. In one of the rooms, he sees Channary and Booker getting high together.
Back at the station, Scotty pulls the old crime photos and notices that the kitchen window is
already boarded up, meaning it happened before their deaths. Jeffries ran a background check
on Atwater, but it came back clean and no registered weapons. Scotty wants to bring him in
and sweat him, but Vera says that he already lawyered up. Stillman pulls Lilly aside and tells
her that he looked into Booker’s Vietnam record. He had an old pal from when he fought in
the same war, who works at the VA. He found out that Booker was brought up on charges for
allegedly massacring locals execution style (like Channary). He beat the court marshal, but was
dishonorably discharged for psychiatric reasons.

Lilly interrogates Booker at the police station. She wants to know why he lied about knowing
Channary. He tells her that she doesn’t like him because he did for Kara what no man ever did
for her - take an interest in her and be a father. Lilly accuses Booker of wanting Channary. She
says he tried to get her to leave Sen, but she wouldn’t so he killed them both in a fit of rage just
like in Vietnam. She tells him she knows he was on the corner that night buying for Channary.
Booker says she was in agony so he helped her with opium, but the person who was selling was
late that night past 10:30pm (after Sen and Channary died). He has the name and number of
the dealer, but he never told Lilly because he didn’t want Kara to know that her mother was
”damaged goods.” He admits he was in love with her. From the moment they first met, he knew
they shared a desire to forget the past. He asks Lilly not to tell Kara.
Kara comes into the station upset that they have Booker. Lilly tells her that they made a
mistake and they’re releasing him. Kara says that they should arrest Atwater because she
heard her aunt telling her uncle about how he would make her lick his boots. Booker wants to
know if it’s true, and Lilly says that they’re looking into it.

Outside the police station that night, Stillman finds Lilly. She feels guilty for judging Booker
and his relationship with Kara. Stillman tells her that Jeffries got Atwater’s phone records
back. He made a lot of calls to Sen’s all within a week before the murder. She and Stillman both
get calls on their cell, and they leave in a hurry.
Outside Atwater’s home, there are a lot of police cars. Lilly and Stillman go inside, and they
find Booker holding Atwater and his wife at gun point. Booker tells Lilly that Atwater shot
Sen and Channary. Lilly wants him to put the gun down. Booker says he figured it out when he
found out that Atwater liked women licking his boots. He realized where the dirt on Channary’s
face came from when he heard Kara tell the story about her aunt. Stillman tells him to put the
gun down, but Booker says he has killed before and he doesn’t mind doing it again. Stillman
says he did the same in the war, but they were just 18 years old then, not grown men like they
are now. Lilly reminds him that Kara needs a father-figure. Booker agrees to put the gun down
if Lilly can nail Atwater. Stillman brings up the phone calls, and Atwater’s wife admits she
called Channary so she could hear the voice of the woman who drove her husband crazy. She
also admits that Atwater left while he was filling potholes that night. She says when he came
back, he buried something in one of them. Stillman knows it’s the gun.
The day of the murder, Channary acted better than Atwater. That night he knocked on the
door to teach her a lesson. He held them at gun point and forced Channary to her hands and
knees or he would kill Sen. He forced her to lick his boots and then move on up. Sen hit him and
the gun went off, killing him. Atwater gets upset at what they made him do, and he has to kill
Channary too. He asks her if she’s going to beg, but she tells him that he ”doesn’t exist.” That is when Atwater’s gun went off again. Both of the parents are lying dead on the floor.

The closing scenes are to the Scorpions ”Send Me an Angel.” Stillman cuffs Atwater and
Lilly escorts Booker out of the house. The CSU unit digs up the gun in the driveway. Lilly brings
Kara the bracelet, and watches as she runs outside and embraces Booker. Lilly ”sees” Sen and
Channary in the window of their old apartment. Stillman files the solved case in the vault. Lilly
sits alone with her cats at home looking at photos. One of them shows a young Lilly holding an
adult male’s hand. The other shows the back of the head of an adult male holding a young Lilly.
She closes the box that holds the old photos and hugs her cats.